To smoke or not to smoke? Everyone decides for himself. However, you should be aware that there are places where smoking is prohibited under current law.
The spread of the habit causes teenagers to start smoking at the age of 11-12. What can this lead to? Even pregnant and lactating mothers do not deny themselves addiction. Parents smoke in their homes and on their balconies without thinking that not only they, but also their children have shortened their lives.
The main idea of the law is to use it to protect the health of citizens and the negative effects of cigarette smoke. According to statistics, the very high mortality rate is due to this dependence. However, not only smokers but also those around them suffer from smoking.
List of places where smoking is prohibited by law
- educational institutions, as well as institutions related to the promotion of healthy lifestyles and sports.
- cultural institutions.
- Buildings of hospitals, polyclinics, sanatoriums and other sanatorium-resort zones.
- Long-distance trains.
- Ships serving passengers.
- Urban and intercity public transport.
- hotel buildings and other residential buildings.
- You can smoke in cafes and restaurants only on summer patios or playgrounds.
- Crowded places: markets, shopping malls, buildings for social services.
- Buildings and territories of state bodies.
- Workplaces and zones.
- Elevators of apartment buildings.
- Areas of gas stations and aircraft.
- Playgrounds and public beaches for children.
Non-smoking areas may be determined at the discretion of the owner of the land or building.
If desired, the owner can provide a special place for smoking. It can be outdoors or indoors. In the second case, it is necessary to pay attention to the installation of the ventilation system. The law sets special requirements for these places: in a room where smoking is prohibited, it is necessary to install a special sign indicating the cigarette drawn in a circle.
Smoking ban in different countries
Strict measures to combat smoking have long been used in most countries. In the first phase, each country will take measures to ban smoking in crowded places. In almost every country, a person who violates the law is subject to significant fines for non-compliance.
If you smoke in the wrong place in America, you will have to pay an effective fine for breaking the law. This amount is higher in the UK. Greece is also actively fighting this addiction, where it is fined for smoking in the wrong place. In Japan, the fight against smoking is on a large scale, and there is even a list of streets where smoking is completely banned.
The list of places where smoking is banned in almost all countries is almost the same. However, it is better to get acquainted with the laws of a foreign country separately. Smoking areas are usually marked everywhere. Some countries even take measures to limit the sale of cigarettes. The most non-smoking country is the Vatican. Smoking has been banned there since 2002.
Many countries have focused their efforts not only on identifying non-smoking areas, but also on promoting healthy lifestyles. For most smokers, identifying restricted areas is humiliating because they now have to hide and go to places where smoking is possible. A person begins to feel a little out of place and, over time, becomes less and less looking for places where you can smoke. With a favorable environment, all this causes a person to quit smoking.
After the adoption of the law, the statistics have significantly improved. Not only the level of sales of tobacco products has decreased, on the contrary, there have been positive changes in the birth rate, the number of pathologies in newborns has decreased. Fortunately, the death rate from lung and throat cancer has changed. This bad habit is a powerful weapon of mass destruction that kills more people every year than any other war on the planet.
The government is now trying not only to restrict smoking areas, to make cigarettes a luxury (gradually increasing their price), but also to actively combat the promotion of smoking in the media. You don't often see people smoking on TV screens and in movies.